Best Mobile Companies in New Zealand
The 31 best Mobile companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Postr.
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Our analysis of 127 Mobile companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Postr Lock-Screen advertising | $5M | 104 mo ago | Acquired | Mun Chang Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 2 | kin2kin Photo and messaging app | $2M | 136 mo ago | Seed | Hamish Wayne McGregor Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 3 | Air Dingy Mobile game development studio | — | — | Unfunded | Matt Baeriswyl Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 4 | Astro Apps Developer of iOS apps | — | — | Deadpooled | Nick Pittaway Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 5 | AtomJump Browser based messaging service with client app for mobiles | — | — | Unfunded | Peter Abrahamson Founder | 2008 | UbuntuPaths.jsApache HTTP Server+4 | — |
| 6 | callerads limited We have patented technology which delivers advertising content to mobile phones and more widely to connected… | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 7 | Dinosaur Polo Club Video game developer specializing in casual games | — | — | Unfunded | Peter Curry Co-Founder | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 8 | drumleaf Drumleaf specializes in the fields of digital marketing, advertising and publishing. | — | — | Deadpooled | — | 2009 | — | — |
Top 2 Mobile companies in New Zealand
#1
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2014 · 25 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Postr is an Android app that brings personalised and rewarding content to users. Brings customised content feeds and personalised advertisement with engagement mechanisms to user's lock screens and rewards users with a virtual currency. Postr also provides full-funnel analytics and unmatched targeting options to advertisers.
- Feb 2018Series A$2.5M
- Jan 2017Seed$2.1M
#2
Seed · Wanaka, Otago · founded 2015$1.5Mraised▾
kin2kin is a photo and messaging app for family. It is designed to include grandparents with family across many households, busy parents and kids too young for Facebook. kin2kin is working with a number of community and commercial organisations that support or inspire youth and seniors; ranging from Alzheimer's, medical alerts, elderly health to sports and schools. They raised angel investment capital in early 2015 and launched in March 2016.
- 2015Angel$1.5M
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Mobile coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on 5G / 6G Networks is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around 5G / 6G Networks — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 82 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Victoria University of Wellington46
- University of Canterbury13
- University of Auckland9
- Auckland University of Technology9
- Ministry of Education6
- Beamforming3→6
- Electronic engineering3→4
- Telecommunications3→4
- Beamforming2
- Telecommunications link2
- Interference (communication)2
- MIMO2
- Radio-frequency identification1
Where 5g 6g is researched across New Zealand
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.